Ancient Rus'. Events and people. Cottage of O.

The book of a large domestic specialist in ancient Russian history and literature, Doctor of Philological Sciences O.V. Bottom (1928-2015), is dedicated to the main events and existing characters of Russian history - from the first Rurikovich to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Having put the chronological principle at the forefront, the author of the year after the year goes all the way with his heroes, stopping on key persons and facts - the formation of the Old Russian state to the rule of Vladimir the Holy, fragmentation and Russian principalities in the XII -XIII centuries. , the Tatar-Mongol invasion and the era of Alexander Nevsky, the emergence of the Moscow principality and its struggle against Tver and Lithuania, the dramatic events of the reign of Ivan III and Ivan IV Terrible, the Troubles and the reign of the Romanovs. For a wide range of readers.